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Market Recap 5/6/11

The month of May began excitedly with the global headline of the week. Late Sunday evening, President Obama announced to the world that Osama bin Laden was found and killed. American stock futures and the U.S. Dollar immediately began to rise as the price of Gold fell $16.00. Silver which already had a tumultuous. weekend, took a sharp dive . By mid-day, it was apparent that the bin Laden bounce was short lived.

Later that day, reports came out that Mexico’s central bank had been quietly stocking up on Gold. They boosted their foreign reserves by trading $4 Billion worth of U.S. Dollars for $4 Billion in Gold. “They’re probably thinking that getting out of Dollars and into Gold makes sense because we know that the Dollar has some trend to depreciate in the near future at least,” said Sergio Martin, Chief Economist at HSBC in Mexico City. “I don’t think they’re going to lose money with this.”

Also on Thursday, a new report by Clear Capital stated that home prices have double dipped nationwide. Nationwide prices are now lower than their low point of 2009. Prices have fallen 11.5% in the past nine months. Over one third of the national home sales are coming from bank owned properties (REO) and banks want to get these properties off their books, thus driving prices down.

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